If your employer said they'd pay you half a million if you worked for them, and then you did and they didn't pay you, I doubt you'd be dismissing it so frivolously
2. If it’s not hard work, then why didn’t Tesla go out and do it themselves instead of mooching off someone else to do it?
it is literally a situation in which a business pays someone for doing a job (e.g. referring customers)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referral_economy
If your employer said they'd pay you half a million if you worked for them, and then you did and they didn't pay you, I doubt you'd be dismissing it so frivolously